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He held the position for two years before the Foreign Office applied to appoint him Ambassador to Brazil. He never took up the latter post, being obliged to resign from the Foreign Office, without a pension, as a result of the publicity surrounding his divorce. Bentinck's aristocratic background attracted press attention; Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, apparently sympathetic, remarked at that the time "I could have saved him if his name had been Smith." |
After his withdrawal from the diplomatic service, Cavendish-Bentinck embarked on a business career, becoming Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Industrial Interests in Germany. From this position, he was able to advance the interests of British companies such as Unilever. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group. |
In 1980 he succeeded his elder brother Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck as the 9th Duke of Portland. Upon his own death in 1990, the dukedom and the Marquessate of Titchfield became extinct because his only son had predeceased him and there were no other surviving male heirs of the 1st Duke. However, the earldom of Portland had been created in an earlier generation than the dukedom and there were surviving descendants in the male line to inherit it. That title was therefore inherited by his kinsman, Henry Noel Bentinck, who became 11th Earl of Portland, together with its subsidiary titles of Viscount Woodstock and Baron Cirencester. He was interred at the traditional burial place of the Dukes of Portland in the churchyard of St Winifred's Church at Holbeck. |
Bentick married Clothilde Bruce Quigley (died 1984), an American, on 16 February 1924. She was the daughter of James Bruce Quigley. They had two children together: |
Soon after World War II began Bentinck received a telephone call at his office from his Hungarian maid to tell him that his wife had left him and taken their children with her. They were finally divorced in 1948. |
Portland married secondly, Kathleen Elsie Barry (died 2004) on 27 July 1948. She was the daughter of Arthur Barry. This marriage produced one child: |
= = = Sharbithat = = = |
Sharbithat () is a coastal town in Dhofar, Oman. It is located at around , and is located in the wilayat of Sheleem. Sharbithat is situated around 430 km from Salalah, which is in the south of Sultanate of Oman. |
Sharbithat is basically a fishing village, having a population of approximately 300 people. Fish caught from Sharbithat is sent to places like Dubai and Salalah, where it is packaged and exported to many countries. Sharbithat has a secondary school and a health center. A new housing colony has recently been built. |
= = = 666 = = = |
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= = = Sebastian Gryphius = = = |
Sebastian Gryphius (; c. 1492, in Reutlingen – 1556, in Lyon) was a German bookseller-printer and humanist. |
He was the son of Michael Greyff (Greif, Gryff, Gryph), and learned from him the new craft of printing, in Germany and then in Venice. Around 1520 he came to Lyon and settled there, on behalf of a Venetian firm of booksellers. |
Initially Gryphius mostly published works on law and administration, in Gothic script. He then moved to Latin classics. He also translated classical Greek authors into Latin. He published his contemporaries Erasmus, Guillaume Budé and Poliziano. |
In 1536 he went into business with Hugues de la Porte, who financed him in an independent venture. He founded "l'Atelier du Griffon", with a griffin mark. Around this time he introduced the Italic type of Aldus Manutius. |
In the 1540s he was the highly reputed 'Prince of the Lyon book trade'. He promoted the local humanist culture, and his books were prized for their clean lay-out and accuracy. The nineteenth-century scholar Henri Baudrier spoke of Sebastian Gryphius's printshop ("Atelier du Griffon") as a « société angélique pour les libres-penseurs ». |
His friends included André Alciat, Étienne Dolet, Guillaume Scève and Barthélémy Aneau, and they wrote highly of his work, even helping out in practical printing tasks. Their linguistic input was also of benefit to the works printed. Gryphius printed suspect texts and even sheltered authors in trouble for heretical writing. Étienne Dolet, an academic and satirical poet, came fresh from jail in Toulouse, and was burned as a heretic in 1546. |
From 1540, François Rabelais came to Gryphius to publish his translations of Hippocrates, Galen and Giovanni Mainardi. |
His brother Franz (François) was a printer in the "rue des Carmes" in Paris from 1532. Another brother, Johann (Jean), remained in Venice, also as a printer. |
= = = Championship Manager 4 = = = |
Championship Manager 4 is a football management game in the Championship Manager series. |
It was the penultimate game in the series to be developed by Sports Interactive before they and publishers Eidos decided to go their separate ways. The game was released for Windows in March 2003 and then on the Mac on April 11, 2003. |
It was hugely anticipated by fans of the series, mainly due to the inclusion of a graphical 2D match-engine for the first time in a CM game, and upon its release it became the fastest selling PC game of all time in the UK. |
"Championship Manager 4" received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. |
= = = The Walk (The Cure song) = = = |
"The Walk" is a song by English rock band The Cure, released as a stand-alone single in July 1983. It later appeared on the compilation album "Japanese Whispers". It was recorded when the band was briefly reduced to the two founding members Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst following the departure of bassist Simon Gallup following the end of the band's previous tour in support of the album Pornography. in May 1982. According to Tolhurst, they chose producer Steve Nye due to his work on the album Tin Drum by Japan. |
One of the three B-sides to the single is "Lament", which is a re-recording of a promo single released in late 1982 for the "Flexipop" magazine. Unlike the earlier version, which was garbled and experimental, the lyrics are understandable and the music has a different composition. |
Released as a single in July 1983, "The Walk" was something of a commercial breakthrough for the group with regard to their singles output, peaking at number 12 and giving them their first entry into the UK top 20. It was also the first of their 17 consecutive Irish top 20 hits between 1983 and 1992. |
The Cure recorded a completely new version of "The Walk" for their remix album "Mixed Up", as the original master tapes could not be located. They later recorded an acoustic version for their "Greatest Hits compilation. |
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= = = Mojżesz Presburger = = = |
Mojżesz Presburger (1904 – 1943) was a Polish Jewish mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski and is known for, among other things, having invented Presburger arithmetic as a student in 1929. |
He was born in Warsaw on 27 December 1904 and died in the Holocaust, probably 1943. |
In 2010, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science began conferring the annual Presburger Award (named after Mojżesz Presburger) to a young scientist (in exceptional cases to several young scientists) for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science. Mikołaj Bojańczyk was the first recipient. |
= = = Derren Litten = = = |
Derren Ronald Litten (born 21 December 1970) is an English comedy writer and actor. He is best known as the creator and writer of the sitcom "Benidorm". Litten also co-wrote the "The Catherine Tate Show", for which he both wrote and appeared as several different characters in the first two series and the 2005 Christmas Special. He has also acted in many comedy and drama series including "Perfect World", "French and Saunders", "Spaced", "EastEnders", Coronation Street, "Pie in the Sky" with Richard Griffiths. |
Litten’s first sitcom was "Benidorm", which began airing on ITV in 2007. The series follows various groups of holiday makers and staff in the all-inclusive Solana resort located in Benidorm. The series starred actors and actresses such as Johnny Vegas, Sheila Reid, Chrissy Rock, Selina Griffiths and Sherrie Hewson. The series received strong ratings and later extended its runtime from 30 minutes to an hour. The show ran for 10 series ending in 2018. |
He wrote an episode of "Not Going Out", and is also the credited writer of an episode of the "Only Fools and Horses" spin-off "Green Green Grass". |
In 2013, a one-off sketch was produced for Sport Relief featuring the "Benidorm" cast. The sketch involved several of the characters singing on "Britain's Got Talent". |
Litten also wrote a remake episode of "Are You Being Served?" which three of the cast had previously appeared in "Benidorm", Sherrie Hewson, John Challis and Niky Wardley. It was poorly received by audiences and critics. |
Derren studied acting at The Central School of Speech and Drama where he met Catherine Tate. He left Central in 1993 and worked as a jobbing actor for 10 years appearing in shows such as "Green Wing", "Pie In The Sky", "Spaced", "French & Saunders", "Doc Martin", "Eastenders", "Casualty" and "Perfect World" but it was not until 2003 when Catherine asked Derren to write sketches for her TV show. Litten agreed despite having no experience in script writing, or indeed any formal qualifications at all having left Hessle High School (East Yorkshire) without a single O level or GCSE. In 2004 Derren was nominated for a BAFTA Craft award in the category of Best New Writer. |
After two series and a Christmas Special (2005) writing for and appearing in "The Catherine Tate Show", Derren met writer John Sullivan who asked if he would be interested in contributing to his "Only Fools & Horses" spin off "The Green Green Grass". Derren wrote one episode and co-wrote another with John. |
In 2006, Derren penned his own comedy for ITV based in a Spanish all inclusive holiday resort. "Benidorm" turned out to be a ratings hit for ITV and was also won for a BAFTA in the category of Situation Comedy. From series 3 onwards the half-hour sitcom was turned into an hour-long show. In October 2011 Constable & Robinson published Derren's book to accompany the series, "The Benidorm Guide to A Happy Holiday". Benidorm has won numerous awards including 7 National Television Awards. Series 5 began transmission in February 2012 and Series 6 began transmission in January 2014. Derren did not take a regular acting part in "Benidorm" but instead appears briefly throughout the series in a number of small cameo roles. In January 2013 SKY LIVING announced its new sitcom "The Spa", written and created by Derren and starring Rebecca Front, would air from 7 February 2013. In this series, Litten also plays a regular character, Marcus, an overweight fitness instructor who uses a wheelchair. In 2016 Litten wrote the script for the pilot episode for the remake of "Are You Being Served?" |
Litten wrote and directed the sitcom "Scarborough" for the BBC. It started airing in September 2019. |
He has made it publicly known that he is a part of the LGBT community. |
= = = Beata = = = |
Beata or Beate is a female given name that occurs in several cultures and languages, including Italian, German, Polish, and Swedish, and which is derived from the Latin "beatus", meaning "blessed". Variants include Bea, Beade and Beáta. The name may refer to: |
= = = Anders Matthesen = = = |
Anders "Anden" (""The Duck"") Matthesen (born July 6, 1975) is a Danish stand-up comedian, actor and rapper. He is known for creating a wide array of memorable characters and stereotypes which he uses as alter-egos in performances. |
After failing as a rapper, Matthesen started his stand-up career at the Danish Stand-Up Championship in 1993, where he finished in second place. After making a name on this scene, as well as through his comedy radio stories, he also contributed to several other projects. For example, a television "Julekalender", "Jul på Vesterbro", featured fourteen characters of his invention, all of them played by himself. These included the drunken, prostitute-addicted sailor Stewart Stardust, and his junkie son, Danny. The story revolves around Stewart's hot dog stand, which a band of terrorists attempts to use to detonate a nuclear device during a UN meeting in Copenhagen. |
Anders Matthesen has also released several CDs with his radio material, in addition to the animated movie "Terkel in Trouble", based on one of these. He has also shown himself as a capable actor in a few plays including one about the life of the Danish travel tycoon Simon Spies. In 2006 he revisited rapping on his album "Soevnloes", to great success, earning a gold record. |
Recently Anders Matthesen has gone back to his stand-up roots, touring Denmark with shows like "Bytte, bytte købmand" (in collaboration with stand-up comedian Thomas Hartmann) from 2009 and the new one man show ""ANDERS"" which was released on DVD on November 11, 2013. |
= = = The Love Cats (song) = = = |
"The Love Cats" (sometimes rendered as "The Lovecats") is a song by English rock band The Cure, released as a stand-alone single in October 1983. |
It was the band's first Top 10 hit in the UK, peaking at number 7. It also reached number 6 on the Australian chart in early 1984. The single later appeared on the compilation album "Japanese Whispers", released in December 1983. |
At the time the song was written, Robert Smith was very interested in the work of Australian author Patrick White. According to a number of his fans, Smith was inspired to write "The Love Cats" after reading White's novel "The Vivisector" (1970), although this claim is difficult to verify. In the novel, the protagonist, Hurtle, is appalled when his lover's husband drowns a sack of stray cats. White draws a parallel between the way in which the cats are discarded, and the treatment of certain characters in the book; by extension, the cats symbolize the most innocent and vulnerable members of society, and the casual cruelty with which they sometimes meet their fate. |
The music video features a number of cats and a large lampshade falling on the head of bassist Phil Thornalley. There are many shots of a mansion which the band told a buyer they were interested in buying it. They returned the keys in the morning. Real cats were supposed to be used but after proving to be troublesome, taxidermied ones were used in the place of cats. Smith said of the video: "'The Love Cats' is far from being my favourite song: composed drunk, video filmed drunk, promotion made drunk. It was a joke." |
"The Love Cats" has been covered by Luke Doucet, on his album "Blood's Too Rich"; OK Go, on their "Do What You Want" EP; Tricky, on his album "Vulnerable"; Paul Anka, on his 2005 album of covers, "Rock Swings"; The Hot Rats, on their 2010 debut album "Turn Ons"; and The Sharp, on their EP "Yeah I Want You". Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua also did a live cover of the song in 2007." |
= = = Manchester Square = = = |
Manchester Square is an 18th-century garden square in Marylebone, London. Centred north of Oxford Street it measures internally north-to-south, and across. It is a small Georgian predominantly 1770s-designed instance in central London; construction began around 1776. The north side has a central mansion, Hertford House, flanked by approach ways; its first name was Manchester House — its use is since 1897 as the Wallace Collection (gallery/museum) of fine and decorative arts sits alongside the Madame Tussauds museum and Wigmore Hall concert rooms as single-greatest tourist attractions of Marylebone. The square forms part of west Marylebone, most of which sees minor but overarching property interests held by one owner (through lease reversions managed as the Portman Estate) among which many buildings have been recognised by statutory protection (as listed buildings). |
Among residents figured: |
This six-house long approach fronts the east side of Hertford House (or its small public front lawn with steps, benches and paths). The first five buildings of Spanish Place are those listed, in the mainstream, initial category of Grade II. They were built c.1780-90, associated with the Duke of Manchester's development of the square, on Portman land. Their materials are brown brick, recessed slate roofs above five varying-prominence storeys with 3-window wide fronts. They have semicircular arched doorways to right; panelled doors with sidelights and fanlights; one a stuccoed Doric porch. Their windows are recessed sashes, in stuccoed reveals, under flat gauged arches. Reaching out below the first floor is a stucco plat band, painted stone or stucco cornice over the next, then a stucco cornice and blocking course marking the attic storey. Original, cast iron, geometric patterned balconies adorn the first floor. Cast iron area railings with urn finials enclose the front. №3 has a blue plaque as the home of Captain Marryat and George Grossmith. |
In 1814 and 1815 the square was the chosen setting for cheaper newspapers and, above all, their inner page articles to perpetuate a fresh round of the urban myth of a pig-faced woman. |
The cover photograph for "Please Please Me", the first LP by The Beatles, was taken by Angus McBean in 1963. It showed the group looking down over the stairwell inside EMI House here, EMI's London headquarters (now demolished). A repeat photo was taken in 1969 for the cover of their then-intended "Get Back" album; it was not used when the project saw release as "Let It Be", but was eventually used on the retrospective albums "1962–1966" and "1967–1970". |
In the early 20th century, the chemical company ICI moved into a new headquarters in the north-west corner of the square, which was designed in a modern style with classical elements. Around the rest of the square stand tall brick Georgian terraced houses, many of which are inside converted to offices. |
Manchester Square Fire Station, just over a full block north-west, in retail/leisure street Chiltern Street, was decommissioned in June 2005 by the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) and, expanding further south, forms a luxury hotel and restaurant. |
= = = Mingo Wilderness = = = |
Mingo Wilderness is an 8,000 acre (32 km) U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Missouri in the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1964. While the public is invited to engage in recreational opportunities such as fishing, hiking, canoeing, and wildlife observation, all uses are primitive and nondestructive and all access is by either foot traffic or nonmotorized boat. |
A special auto tour that runs around the perimeter of the Wilderness Area is open on Saturdays and Sundays in April, October, and November. |
The following specific activities are permitted in the Wilderness Area: |
= = = BBC National Programme = = = |